Dear JCEA Siblings,
I’m Ang Anderson, and I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve you, my fellow educators, as your next JCEA President.
Growing up with educators in my family, I learned the union’s importance early and joined on my first day of orientation. I stepped into leadership during Jeffco’s dark years when extreme school board members tried to break our union and decimate our public schools. Since then, I have been advocating for our profession and working to create the schools our students and educators deserve.
Ang Anderson and Brooke Williams on the Sheridan Education Association strike line
My vision is to create worksites filled with Joy, Justice, Equity, and Respect for educators and students, regardless of job title or zip code. For me, this looks like removing barriers so educators can create joyful, engaging classrooms and lifelong learning experiences. It means we fight to strengthen and enforce equity commitments in both the district and JCEA. It means we have physical and emotional safety created in collaboration with educators. Finally, it means our district trusts us to be experts in our classrooms and works with us as genuine partners.
The barriers are ones that we know, such as inadequate funding, attacks on academic freedom, over testing our students, and micromanaging our profession. While the challenges of society may create these barriers, I believe that we can overcome them together when we advocate for our students to create schools our students deserve that are full of magic, learning, and growth.
I invite you to enjoy me in this work to fulfill the promise of public education. My door is always open and I am only a phone call or email away. JCEA is a place for each of you to have a voice, to advocate, to feel supported, and to be a part of a community.
Because when we fight, we win!
In solidarity,
Ang Anderson
JCEA President